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Secrets of sewage science

The secrets of sewage science and how wastewater can stop the next pandemic.

Maybe listen to this one BEFORE you eat… James is off to meet the sewage scientists trying to stop the next pandemic. He meets the teams that were monitoring 80% of people’s faeces during Covid-19 and finds out how sewage led to hundreds of thousands of children having an emergency polio vaccine. James needs to collect a sample at a water treatment works and then head to the laboratory… just be glad you can’t smell a podcast.

Presenter: James Gallagher
Producer: Erika Wright

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28 minutes

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Wed 5 Oct 2022 15:30

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  • Tue 4 Oct 2022 21:00
  • Wed 5 Oct 2022 15:30

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